Anning Class from Evendons Primary School recently visited the Carnival Pool multi-storey car park development. Here is their report about their visit:
Today we went to the building site by Carnival pool in Wokingham.
We saw builders working from a safe distance. We walked all the way there and back from Evendons primary school. When we arrived we had our snacks straight away as we were hungry after the walk!
We arrived at the site office which is near Elms Field, there was a fake man in the window who was a mannequin called Dangerous Dave. He was dressed in the clothes that you wear to keep safe on the building site. Each morning the workers go into the site office and have an assembly and are told what is happening, just like we have at school.
We met some of the staff from Balfour Beatty, the construction company who are building the multi-storey car park. Eddie is the site manager and Julius is the project manager. They were very friendly, helpful and kind and showed us the site office and the site. They also came to visit us at our school. They were funny and helped us understand how to keep safe.
The multi-storey car park had nine levels and five floors, it will take four more months to complete and there will be 529 car parking spaces.
The building site was very busy and there were about 30 builders there building the car park. There was so much going on that we had to stay behind the safety barriers.
We noticed that the men all had different coloured helmets on, Eddie told us that the black hats were worn by people who build, the red hats were worn by the pilers and the orange and yellow hats were worn by the people who worked the big machines.
We saw a huge crane which was lifting heavy floors for the nine levels. The men in orange hats worked the cranes and people with walkie talkies told the controller what to do. Steven guessed that the cranes had cameras on the top so that we could see what was happening.
Every person on site must wear a safety helmet because it will protect their head if something falls on it. They wear goggles to protect their eyes from all the dust and other dangerous things. They also wear gloves to protect their hands and stop them getting splinters. You must never go into a building site unless you work there.
We really enjoyed the seeing the plans, the building and finding out how everything is built and look forward to seeing what it will look like when it’s finished. Lots of us now want to be engineers when we grow up.
